Best High Tech Companies in Canberra, Australia
The 31 best High Tech companies in Canberra, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: QuintessenceLabs.
Our analysis of 50 High Tech companies
$13.6b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Canberra
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QuintessenceLabs Provider of quantum cybersecurity solutions, including key management and distribution 48Talent top 28%Funding top 30%Moat top 39%Growth top 45% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 30% Moattop 39% Growthtop 45% Marketbottom 43% Techbottom 41% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 21% Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 · 2 named leaders on record Funding: Raised $40.6M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 14 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $41M | 19 mo ago | Series B | Vikram Sharma Co-Founder & CEO | 2008 | HubSpot CMS HubSplideLightbox+13 | — | — |
| 2 | Smartlox Provider of cloud-based access management platform | $600K | 34 mo ago | Seed | Brent Wijnberg Co-Founder | 2022 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Locata Provides precise positioning solutions without GPS | $153K | 62 mo ago | Funding Raised | Nunzio Gambale Co-Founder & CEO | 1997 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+12 | 106 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 4 | Garden Space Integrated system for automating irrigation & spraying operations in gardens and for providing decision… | $100K | 109 mo ago | Deadpooled | Ken Loh Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 5 | AONIQ Industrial 3D Printer and 3D Printing PVC Filament Material developer | — | — | Unfunded | Michael Slavic Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Ardexa Provider of device management | — | — | Unfunded | George Cora Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | — |
| 7 | AxSys Performance Developer of a wearable device for measuring distance, acceleration, agility and force of the athletes | — | — | Deadpooled | Adrian Faccioni CEO & MD | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 8 | BLACKBOX Cryptocurrency mining hardware solutions | — | — | Deadpooled | Kristoffer Sheather Founder | 2018 | — | — | — |
Top 4 High Tech companies in Canberra
#1
Series B · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · founded 2008 · 52 employees$40.6Mraised▾
Provider of quantum cybersecurity solutions, including key management and distribution. It delivers data protection through quantum key generation and crypto-agile key management. The company offers quantum key distribution, helping organizations build a quantum-safe future. Its capabilities extend to quantum true random number generators and entropy management software.
- Apr 2025Series B$12.1M
- Mar 2022Series B$21.9M
- Oct 2021Series B$18.7M
- Feb 2020Series B—
#2
Seed · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · founded 2022$600Kraised▾
Provider of cloud-based access management platform
#3
Funding Raised · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · founded 1997 · 33 employees$152.8Kraised▾
Locata provides precise positioning solutions without GPS. It has developed a radio-location technology (LocataTech) to provide precise positioning in many environments where GPS is not working properly or unavailable. Additionally, its network of terrestrially-based LocataLite transceivers transmits synchronized signals. The transmitted signals forms a positioning network called LocataNet that operates in combination with GPS (e.g. open-cut mining) or without GPS (e.g. indoors or in urban areas). It claims to have has more than 120 granted patents on devices and systems and has dozens of additional patents in the pipeline. Its clients are Hexagon, Newmont, U.S. Air Force, RMIT University, US Naval Observatory, and many others.
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$81.9K
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$70.9K
#4
Deadpooled · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · founded 2016$100Kraised▾
Garden Space provides an integrated hardware and software platform for automating irrigation & spraying operations in gardens & in urban farms and for providing decision support to gardeners and to urban farmers. The hardware device named "Myto" is a sensor suite for monitoring soil and microclimatic parameters. It analyzes the captured data to provide water as needed by plants. The company claims that the system also sprays the plants and can protect the plants from pests as well as from stray animals. The captured data is pushed to a cloud and provides insights and notifications to users in case of a requirement for intervention. The data can be viewed through a companion mobile application which also provides agronomic information to users regarding the best agricultural practices. The company's solution is targeted primarily towards the urban apartment residents with small outdoor land available for gardening.
- Sep 2017Seed$100K
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